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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The biggest thing that went wrong is that several key players did not take the next step, including Johnny and Monahan, leaving the club with best players that are consistently outplayed by the other team's best players.
To me that's the biggest factor, coupled with Sam not becoming an impact player, that has wrecked this edition of the club and why some sort of reset needs to happen.
The closest similar situation is the Flyers realizing that Carter/Richards weren't going to lead them to a cup. So they moved on and moved them.
That's what I think needs to happen here.
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The other factor that Treliving has failed at is valuation of players.
He overvalues our players, and at the same time, has difficulty with accurately valuing players across the league.
Article on flamesnation says the offers we received for monahan were underwhelming. Were the offers underwhelming, or is monahan an underwhelming player? Believe the latter and offers presented may have been fair market value.
The value he put on hamonic was so far out of whack. When you have JT Miller move for a 1st and 3rd, which was widely panned at the time, the 1st and 2 2nds for hamonic was utter larceny by Snow. Yes, Miller wasn’t available at the time of the hamonic trade but most people thought that was a massive overpay and probably ex
Not having the foresight to move on from monahan and gaudreau will be his undoing and had set the franchise back further in developing a championship team. In addition to Lombardi, hope Futa is given consideration. LA pedigree and may have good relationship with Sutter.